Pacific Fusion finds a cheaper way to make its fusion reactor work Fusion power’s biggest question remains unanswered: how do you ensure the cost to start the fusion reaction isn’t higher than the price at which you can sell the power? Plenty of people have ideas, but no one has cracked it yet. Commonwealth Fusion Systems, for example, is confident enough that it’s building a massive reactor...

Accel is making a big investment in Fibr AI, a technology that helps businesses create personalized experiences for their website visitors. Instead of relying on traditional marketing agencies or complex engineering teams to customize websites, Fibr AI uses autonomous systems to do this automatically. This means that businesses can provide a tailored experience for each visitor without needing...

So, what’s going on with Musicboard? Musicboard, an app for music discovery and recommendations, has been struggling, according to its users. Over the past several months, users said the app experienced outages, the website went offline, and the Android app disappeared from the Play Store. This has concerned its devoted, if small, user base. (The app has been downloaded around 462,000 times to...

Today's NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints and Answers for Feb. 4, #499 Here are hints and the answers for the NYT Connections: Sports Edition puzzle for Feb. 4, No. 499. CNET editor Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, a journalist and pop-culture junkie, is co-author of "Whatever Happened to Pudding Pops? The Lost Toys, Tastes and Trends of the '70s and '80s," as well as "The Totally...

As it preps Specs for the masses, Snap’s Q4 shows revenue growth but fewer daily users Snap is on a mission to diversify its revenue sources—moving from a business model in which it largely chases ad revenue to one where it can also make money through subscriptions and, eventually, hardware. The company’s latest quarterly earnings report shows that, so far, the firm is having moderate success...